Business & Industry

The first of its kind in the UK, the Academy enables chefs, hotel managers and hospitality staff to train within a fully operating hotel restaurant and conference, training and meeting facility. Over

The competition, sponsored by Discover the Origin, seeks to find the chef/waiter team that submits the best two-course menu with matching wines.

The finalists are: Robert Stordy, chef lecturer at the University of Derby, who will be preparing roast Alaska salmon supreme; Neil Snowball, junior sous chef at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's, preparing

James Tanner and Silvena Rowe will both be celebrating the richness and diversity of the north-east's food and drink event Taste of the Grampian steering committee chairman Brian Pack said this year w

Junior champion in 2007, Owen won the North Wales heat of the National Chef of Wales contest at Deeside College, Connah's Quay in November.

The free iPhone works by asking the user to add leftover food to an onscreen blender and then shake the application to create the recipe.

Here are the twelve awards: • The Kate Whiteman Award for Work on Food and Travel • The Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning and Investigative Food Writing or Broadcasting • The Michael Smith Awar

Mike Godwin, managing director, Mövenpick Ice Cream, said: "Creating menu concepts that work for our customers has been the driving force of the business to date.

The event will be held on Tuesday 9 February 2010 from 10am-4pm in Harrogate.

Robbie Robertson is giving his support to the Scottish Government's 'Eat Fresh, Eat Seasonal' initiative which is encouraging people to support Scotland's food and drink industry by rediscovering the